I am really liking all the pro / anti Israel posts on FB right now. Either pictures of dead bodies "These kids only wanted to play on the Gaza strip" or my crazy fundamental christian friends linking fox news (and worse) about how many rockets Israel *hasn't * fired.

" 19:00: A tweet (in Russian) from a key Twitter account used by pro-Russian separatists, in which they claim to have captured a Buk surface-to-air missile system, has now been deleted, BBC Monitoring observes. Ukrainians say the Malaysian plane could have been downed with a Buk, but pro-Russian rebels have now denied they have it. "

"You see that nigga turnin', You feel the bullet burnin', Nigga now you learnin'." - Duke Martin Luther King Jr, in his speech Brave New World(7:16:42 PM) richterenderas: dirk_action is a perpetuator of the socialist cause and a powerful ak-47 wardancer

Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said “a number of passengers” were traveling to the 20th annual International AIDS Conference in Melbourne beginning Sunday, and some of the world’s foremost researchers were believed to have been on the flight.

Already, KidZania had fallen afoul of local sensibilities: a festival of “Scary Fun,” planned for late October, was hastily cancelled after there were protests on social media that KidZania was promoting Halloween, which observant Muslims do not celebrate. (An earlier social-media protest, indicting the park for immorality on the ground that its name included the Arabic word zania, which means “adulteress,” had been quietly ignored.)